The Values of Education in Astek Society

The educational functions of the family in astek society is the first section as fagan has commented from the moment of birth an astek child becomes aware that the world was the place of hard work and suffering early childhood education for the astek was guided by the twin concerns of teaching self-control and accommodation to adversity on the one hand and self-knowledge and introspection on the other. By the age of four both boys and girls were performing chores around the home Boys began by carrying water and accompanying their fathers to work and the market girls by helping their mothers in various household activities such training was intended to prepare them for their futures as wives and mothers while for boys the focus was increasingly on learning